DEFEAT
Definition:
- [noun] an unsuccessful ending
Synonyms: licking
- [noun] the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
Synonyms: frustration
- [verb] win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
Synonyms: get the better of, overcome
- [verb] thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out
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Related Words:
- demolish, destroy
- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
- wallop
- down
- overrun
- lurch, skunk
- get the best, have the best, overcome
- overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master
- rout, rout out, expel
- upset
- nose
- conquer
- survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
- rout
- lurch
- shutout, skunk
- thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
- Waterloo
- whitewash
